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i lh | se Ra RO re ET I RR } ; : SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928 é HAMM JUMPS . NEAR 26 FEET Georgia Tech Ace Shatters World Mark by Leaping 25 Feet, 11 1-8 Inches Harvard Stadium, Cambridge, Mass., July 7—()—The world’s rec ord for the running board jump was shattered in the final Olympic try- outs this afternoon by Ed Hamn, Georgia Tech. Ace, when on his first trial he leaped the astonisiing distance of 25 feet, 11 1-8 inches. Hamm's great jump bettered by ‘one-quarter of an inch the former world’s record of 25 107% inches, made in 1925 by De Hart Hubbard in the last appearance of the fa- mous Cincinnati negro as a repre- senative of the University of Michi- gan. The record pace kept up in the 200 meter dash trials when Cherley Borah of the Los Angeles A. C. making his first start, romped off with the first heat in 21 1/5 seconds, beating Henry Cumming of the Newark A. C., Virgina star, and bet- tering the Olympic record by two- fifths of a second. Borah looked to be in prime condition. Charley Paddock, shut out in the 100 meters yesterday, renewed his comeback effort by leading the way in the second heat in 21 2/5 seconds, also under the Olympic record. The Californian had no trouble leading Jones New York school boy. Tom Sharaey, Dayt -. Ohio, star beat thé Olympic mark in te third heat when he dashec down the stretch in 21 2-5 seconds while | Claude Bracey, Rice institute, Texas, and Jackson Scholz, the Olympic champion, equaled the record of 21 3-5 seconds in capturing the fourth and fifth heats. Weldon Capec, Southern California youngs- ter, pulled a tendon and dropped out of the fifth heat. Frank Lombardi, Los Angeles school boy, was shut out’ in the fourth heat. GIRL LIVES NINE YEARS WITH- OUT FOOD Burgos, Spain, July 7.—d@he vil- lage of Montecillo in this province has gained considerable prominence because of a young woman who has lived nine years without food. She is under constant observation by scientists, who regard her case as being without parallel. The girl passed into a state of coma in 1918, following an attack. of acute gastritis. Specialists refused to operate owing to advanced ulcer- ations in the stomach and the case ‘ded as hopeless. been in a_ trance ever since and is kept alive by means of injections. Villagers regard her with superstitious awe, and when re- ligious service is held at her bedside beret assemble and particiapte in the rites. BULL PLAYS ’POSSUM Put-in-Bay, O., July 7.—Rattle- snake Island, off Lake Erie coast here, was without beef recently, be- cause a “dead” bull injured the butcher and forced him to retreat to the mainland. stores its beef_on the. hoof and hire: a to do the slau: On'this occasion, Mr. Butcher shot Mr. Bull and the animal fell appar- ently dead. . But as: the knife de- scended for the “bleeding”: Mr. Bull scrambled back on the hoof and chased Mr. Butcher back to his boat and the mainland. The Selkirk Mountains are southeast British Columbia. in Tires Never So Cheap As Now, Says Local Seiberling Dealer. Mr. R. Almquist of the A. & M. Tire Service, ‘Which Recently, An- nounced Drastic Price Cuts, De- elares New Low Record Has Been Reached. In winter the vies tering?} dress in 1895. She was ‘Mrs. Robinson and Mother Here is the most recent picture (right) of Mrs. Joseph Robinson, wife of the Democratic choice for vice president and (left) in her wedding i as Miss Ewilda Gertrude Miller, and she and Sena- tor Robinson were childhood sweethearts in Lonoke, Miller, 76, mother of Mrs. Robinson, who makes » Robinsons in Little Rock, is shown in the inset. {HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. Berger, Guilty of 2nd Assault, Will Be in Jail 15 Days Matt Berger, Mandan, ne of a second offense assault ttery by Justice T. J. Krause, has been sentenced 40 serve 15 days in the county jail and was fined $25 and $25 costs. Berger assaulted Jacob Fleck, son of John Fleck, residing south of ae after an altercation at a/ jance, Homemakers’ Clubs Have Mandan Picnic Morton county Homemakers’ clubs are giving an annual picnic at the Chautauqua park grounds today. The i Ha opened at 10:30 to- day with the Mandan, Highland and FlasRer clubs represented. Miss Julia Brekke, extension worker from the state agricultural | college at Fargo, is in charge of the gram, and R. C. Newcomer, Morton county agent, made local ar- rangements. | A picnic luncheon was served at noon, ngfests, demonstrations and talks are events on the after- noon program. A girls’ chorus from the Bismarck Indian schol will sing. Girls’ club members and local lead-| ers are also to attend the picnic, and ti ae for the year will be out- ined. found Ark. Mrs. Jessie her home with the “Everything BY MARY GRAHAM BONNER Author of “The Magic Map,” ete. “Everything and Anything,” by Dorothy -Aldis, illustrate: by D. Jameson (Minton, Balch), is a volume of.verse for children writ- ten from the point of view of chil- dren. The title is taken from a tation from a poem by James phens. ite- “When I was young I dared to sing Of everything, And anything!” The verses deal with the every- things and the anythings which make up the unrealities which are a counterpart of the realities, and the actions and he reflections and the dreams of those who are, as Mr. Milne would say, very youn.;. The opening verse illustrates the grasp the author has of her elusive sub- jects: (a “I am the sister of him And he is my brother. He is too little for us To talk to each other. sine ‘ ‘ an ‘So every morning I show him My doll and my book; fae But every morning he still is Too little to look.” There are the child-like longings for a closer kinship and understand- ing of such distant allurements as the clouds and the sky, a longing to take a spoon of sky-height test the palatability of the clouds, or to utilize the opportunities of flies to a lovelier purpose. “Flies walk on ceilings And straight up the walls; Not even the littlest Fly ever falls. And I am quite certain If I were a fly, T’d leave my home and go ‘Walk on the sky.” The deductions of children are The local car owner today can equip all four wheels with tires for only a little more than it cost him to a couple of spares before the + war, according to Mr. Almquist of the A. & M. Tire Service, distribu- tors. here of Seiberling All!-Tread tires. As a result of the recent re- tee tn the rice of Suberiings, a nearly 12 per cent, a new low record ‘for tire prices has been established. While the average cost of 400 selected commodities is 150 per cent greater than it was before the war, the local 1928 motorist can buy Seiberling All-Treads at less than half what he had to pay for a hi ality tire in 1914. y, with what looks like a necaed besaking touring season ahead,” Mr. Almquist declared, “the car owner of Bismarck can buy four tires for only a little more than he used, to pay. for two. Tires have never been so cheap as they are to- day. The bottom has been knocked out of all previous low price records, t the beginning of 1928, six years at be Rubber com- In 1914 a 32x4 higl ssure tire would have cost him about $44. Now an aver- cut. of 12 Per cent has sent Voss . age the ranks low “And while cost pri riso! while cost price c ns ! thoy don't tell the whole by any means, The ‘old timers’ used to start out on a hun- dred mile trip.in fear and trembling "of a blowout. Fa pox plenty .of spare ire repairg. > wrest Suiberting user radiator toward the 8 sat, ~ 3 ai $478 ig Er 2 i ale Hs hf HH 7 z re i 5 : i ibe i i : hi e a & my 4 ef pictured with fleeting yet captured Helen | 10 | CHILDREN’S BOOKS and Anything” in Verses for Children jstay out in the rain in x wa jchildren “who have only thelr could never do. The book is not confined to a isingle key. There is “Uncle Tim- othy,” who has to be kissed when he comes home from his travels, even though his face is full of rickles. For Uncle ‘rom gets home.’ kneecap is known as the patella. The first-year-of-married-life-bis- cuits are the hardest. charm—watching the flowers in the|tourist camp east of the road, where \early morning waiting for “the sun|conditions are more suitable than to dry their faces,” envious to the|at the present site. .A baseball dia- creatures with feathers who could|mond will be laid out on the property | which |also, Commissioner G. W. Stephens skin” | says. Timothy e yme— So we have to go kiss him when he|join Mrs. Reko and Mr. and Mrs. Mandan Purchases 62 Acre Plot for Parks' Sixty-two acres of land along the | Heart river, extending from the | Russell-Miller Milling company plant west and then north to a point near the site of the old reform school bridge, has been acquired by the Mandan city park commission for use in development of a park system. The land was acquired at an ap- proximate cost of $590. The commission plans to move the {Personal and ‘ Social News of | Mandan Vicinity i W. F, Reko and sister-in-law, Miss “Dollies Peele kabel and dollies Cecile Peters, left Friday for De-! troit Lakes, Minn., where they will ‘ernon Peters at their lake cottage. The bone commonly called the} Chaska Parkins has returned to} Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianap- olis, after spending the last three months in Manian with relatives and friends. ‘ Mrs. Emily Hartner has as her house guests her daughter, Miss Pauline Hartner of Dickinson, and . J. Carlson of La Crogge, e,e 8 Mrs. Margaret McDonald, who has én visiting Mrs. Oscar Morck for the last month, left Thursday for Tacoma, Wash. Staff Sgt. Emmett McDonald of Fort Omaha and Rob- ert McDonald, employed in field work for the North Dakota highway commission, are guests of their mother, Mrs. Morck, this week. and Mrs. William Grosgebauer have returned from several days’ visit in Center, A Miss Florence Ganten of Center. who has been visiting Mrs. Harold Johnson for a few days, left re- cently for Sioux Falls, S. D., where she plans to spend the summer with friends. ee ¢ Mike Fredericks, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, J. B. Fredericks, is recovering from severe burns sus- tained when he was assisting Jacob o~ wand daughter, Mr. | ‘ Leaders Houston. They are s! session of the of Virginian Senator Claude A. Swanson, left, and Governor Harry Byrd were leaders | of the Virginia Gah bea at the Democratic national convention in| own as they conferred in their hotel after a busy | a neat value a is Uh ehasttnt Columbia. Correspor than natural gee rey reuen® courses will be sent out from saving of $10,000 yearly. Departrhent of Education to Complete high school educational children who are unable to } will be carried to every doorstep oftend secondary schools. convention, Hecker in putting tar on a boat. The Fredericks boy spilled tar on his face and right hand. | ‘High Art As OF TTR 23 TERS: U | lieth aC MOCIE TE, Fi The high life must appeal to Fawn| Adler and Ivan Jardon, for her they’re poised on the roof's edge of # Philadelphia hotel. But their bi for spectators was a fcilure, for the! passers-by, twelve stories below, | didn’t even notice them. FUTURE REFERENCE Joan: A kiss speaks volume they say. eae Jack: Yes; don't you think it would be a good idea to start a library ?—-Tit-Bits. BY MR. HENP. “Why does a giraffe make an) ideal wife?” i “Because it has eighteen inches of tongue but no voice.”—Tit-Bits. The poult and egg industry ranks high in’ British Columbia, and the total value of eggs and table birds commercially produced within the «vovince in 1927 is estimated at $6,200,000. During 1927 the California for- est service assisted in distributing and planting nearly four million | fish fry of different species in the streams. Jsable gas is now being produced from sewage. Hiam Rudolfs at the New Jersey Ag- 4 GAS FROM SEWAGE New Brunswick, N. J., July 7— According to Dr. Wil- eriment Station, a dis- plant in a city of 50,000 is pro- gz from 16,000 to 25,000 cubi t of gas daily. The gas, he say: ANNIVERSARY SALE “RECONDITIONED USED CARS” July marks the end of our first business year as distributors of Hudson and Essex automobiles. SERVICE WITH A SMILE Service—That’s what we're here for. That's the rea- son for operating our sta- tion . . . We like the work because we please our pa- trons, and because we like our work, we SMILE. A year of successful sales and service during which we have sold hundreds of used cars, resulting in hundreds of satisfied owner's. Our present stock of used cars is complete, every car is in excellent condition and priced for quick sale. 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